Deborah Blake - Everyday Witch A to Z: An Amusing, Inspiring & Informative Guide to the Wonderful World of Witchcraft

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About the Author

Deborah Blake is a Wiccan high priestess who has been leading an eclectic group, Blue Moon Circle, since Beltane 2004. She is the author of Circle, Coven & Grove: A Year of Magickal Practice, published by Llewellyn in 2007, and has written a number of articles for Pagan publications, including Llewellyns 2008 Witches Companion.

Deborah was also a finalist in the Pagan Fiction Award Contest, and her short story, Dead and (Mostly) Gone, is included in The Pagan Anthology of Short Fiction: 13 Prize-Winning Tales. She is currently working on her third book for Llewellyn, as well as a novel featuring, naturally, a Witch.

When not writing, Deborah manages the Artisans Guild, a cooperative shop she founded with a friend in 1999, and works as a jewelry maker, tarot reader, ordained minister, and intuitive energy healer. She lives in a 100-year-old farmhouse in rural upstate New York with five cats who supervise all her activities, both magickal and mundane.

Llewellyn Publications

Woodbury, Minnesota

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Everyday Witch A to Z: An Amusing, Inspiring & Informative Guide to the Wonderful World of Witchcraft 2008 by Deborah Blake.

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Contents

: from Onyx

: Attitude , Altar, Amethyst, Athame,
Athena, Aphrodite & Artemis

: Broomsticks, Books, Beltane, Banishing, Burning Times

: Coven, Craft, Crone, Colors, Cakes and Ale, Correspondences, Candles, Charge of the Goddess

: Drumming, Dedication, Divination, Drawing Down the Moon,
Days of the Week, Demeter

: Esbats, Elements

: Faeries, Feasts, Familiars

: Garb, Goddess, God, Green Man, Grounding and Centering,
Great Rite

: Herbs, History, High Priestess/High Priest, Hecate, Healing

: Ignorance, Invocation, Imbolc, Isis

: Jewelry, Jasper, Juniper

: Knots, Kitchen Witch

: Laughter, Lammas, Love, Lapis Lazuli

: Mundanes, Magick, Motherhood, Mabon, Midsummer, Moon

: Nature, Never, Naked, Names

: Ordination, Ostara, Oils

: Prosperity, Pentacle, Partners, Psychic Abilities, Protection, Perfect Love and Perfect Trust

: Quiet, Quartz, Qabalah, Quarters

: Ritual, Rosemary, Reincarnation

: Solitary, Sage, Samhain, Sex, Spellcasting, Sabbats, Sacred Space

: Tea, Teaching, Tools, Threefold Law, Trees

: Unity, Urban Witch, Universal

: Vervain, Vacations

: Witch, Wine, Wisdom, Wiccan Rede, Wheel of the Year

: X, Xorguineria

: Yule, Yarrow

: Zodiac, Zenith

Resources and
Recommended Reading

Introduction

I wrote this book for you. Yes, thats right: you.

If you are new to Witchcraft and searching for knowledge, this book was written for you.

If you have been walking the path for many years and need something fun to remind you of what drew you to the Craft, this book was written for you.

If you are curious about Witches or simply interested in exploring the ideas and beliefs of the Pagan world, this book was written for you.

And if you have ever felt the touch of something enchanted in the woods or heard the goddesss whisper in the sound of the waves on the shore, this book is for you.

I wrote this book for anyone who is or might be a Witch. Is that you?

Inside these pages, you will find the serious and the silly, the factual and the fanciful, the irreverent and the inspirational. In short, you will find a little sampling of all those things that make up the everyday Witch.

For while we may don our cloaks and robes for special occasions and gather under the night sky when the moon is full, the truth is that we are Witches all day, every day. Our beliefs, our spiritual practices, and our relationships to each other define who we are as we walk through our everyday lives.

It is my hope that the contents of this book will educate, entertain, and inspire you, and bring a touch of the magickal to your everyday life. And if it makes you laugh out loud a few times, thats good too.

Because living the life of a Witch isnt just a matter of serious beliefs and heartfelt worshipit is also full of fun and joy and laughter.

So open up to any page and find something that will make you think or dream or laughor maybe all three at once, because it is that kind of book!

Deborah Blake (Onyx)

Magic the Cats Introduction

Now, me? I just wrote it for the catnip. Seriously. My Witch, Onyx (you might know her as Deborah Blake), promised me a whole bunch of catnip if I would help her write this book. Not that she really needed my help, of course. Shes a very good Witch and a pretty good writer on her own. But as any of you who have animals know, your furry friends can always add a little something special to whatever you do.

So I told her I would give her a paw. Ive included some of my simple spells and herbal helpers (cats know a lot about herbslike which ones to eat and which ones just to knock on the floorso you can trust me on this) and a few words of wisdom to my fellow familiars that I thought might be useful.